Deleting Rooms

[aliabdelhay]

Hello,

Is there any way to delete rooms other than deleting it from the schedules?.

Thanks,

[David_W_Koch · Accepted solution]

If by "delete," you mean "completely remove from a project file," then unless you are going to venture into some form of customization, no, you have to delete Rooms from a Room Schedule in order to completely removed them.

[AaronRRA]

How come it is like this?  If I delete a room from my plan why does it hang around in the schedule?  Why does it not just disappear from the schedule?  Is there a good reason?

[RSomppi]

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@AaronRRA wrote:

How come it is like this?  If I delete a room from my plan why does it hang around in the schedule?  Why does it not just disappear from the schedule?  Is there a good reason?

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That's a question for the programmers.

[SteveKStafford]

Responding to the original post...

Deleting a room from a model view does not completely remove the room from the database (remain in schedules) because a room might need to be relocated to another floor. We can drag a room from one location to another on the same floor in a plan view but we can't do that from one floor to another. We can delete the room on the first floor and then place the same room (via the Room drop down list on the Options Bar) in another floor's plan view.

A redesign effort usually requires setting aside rooms we've created already. If instead I choose to deletes room(s) in a plan view AND that eliminates the room from the project entirely then that room would have to be recreated from scratch. Now imagine you took the time to fill out project/client specific information in each room already. If I choose to delete rooms (versus dragging them off to the side) so I can redesign the layout those rooms are gone along with all the data you filled out.

This persistence of rooms also means we can create a room schedule and add information to them before any walls are sketched.

[AaronRRA]

Thanks, Steve, that makes sense.  I found a trick elsewhere on how to "locate" the undefined / deleted rooms on the schedule and that helps.  I used to have to literally go through the room schedule and the plan and individually delete rooms that did not show up on the plan.  Now I just have the area show not defined spaces and batch delete.  A handy thing would be if you delete a room to have a pop up asking if you want to delete it from the schedule.  

[SteveKStafford]

We have an "opening view" that assigned to the Starting View option. It's a sheet technically so we can have two schedules on it, among other things. One is a Room Schedule that isolates rooms with issues...not enclosed, not placed, redundant room. This way when the project opens everyone on the team sees when this schedule starts having more than "nothing" in it. When you're in the schedule editing view there is an Option on the ribbon called Isolate and that will hide any rooms that are "working". The schedule has columns for Name, Number and Area. This way each problem is described in the Area column and only those with problems are shown.

The other schedule we use in the view is to list the linked models being used and it includes: Type, Name, Workset (instance parameter so I can see at a glance if one of the two workset parameters for linked files are assigned correctly) and Count (so I can tell if more than one has been placed on purpose or otherwise).